Thought Bubble: What Does Coulson’s Writing Mean?

Agent of SHIELD may have started slowly but after the whole Hydra revelation and the reveal of how Coulson was brought back from the dead the show has been firing on all cylinders with some great action sequences, decent villains and confrontations and a host of mysteries for people to decifer. No mystery is bigger than the still running mystery of ‘What are those Runes Coulson is writing?’ Well here’s my theroy on that following this weeks season2 episode2 shedding a little more light on the potential direction of this story thread.

I’m going to get this out-of-the-way at the beginning and then explain it more- this looks like it should be the beginning of the Marvel cinematic universe introducing us to the ‘InHumans.’ Yes I realise this is far-fetched and a complete shot in the dark but there are clues that have been pointing to this for a while now within the marvel universe- so lets take a look at each of these.

The first and most obvious of these clues is the weird writing that Coulson has been displaying within recent episodes, and that John Garratt was also scrawling all over the place at the end of the first season. This writing looks very much like the writing that is used on the ‘Inhumans’ and as part of the Inhuman culture within the marvel comic books universe- which would be a huge leap for the cinematic universe but one that has already been setup. The real proof that this may well be InHuman language can be seen on the image below:

If you take a look at the title above you can clearly see that the writing looks very familiar when compared with the recent episodes of SHIELD. For those who are unfamiliar with the InHumans here’s a brief run down on them:

At the beginning of the Kree-Skrull War, millions of years ago in Earth time, the alien Kree established a station on the planet Uranus, a strategic position between the Kree and Skrull empires. Through their work at this station, they discovered that sentient life on nearby Earth had genetic potential invested in it by the alien Celestials. Intrigued, the Kree began to experiment on Earth’s then-primitive homo sapiens by splicing Eternals DNA into Cro-Magnons.Their goal was apparently twofold — to investigate possible ways of circumventing their own evolutionary stagnation, and to create a powerful mutant race of soldiers for use against the Skrulls. However, although their experiments were successful in creating a strain of humanity with extraordinary abilities, the Kree abandoned their experiment for reasons which are not yet clear.

Their test subjects, the Inhumans, went on to form a society of their own, which thrived in seclusion from the rest of humanity and developed advanced technology. Experiments with the mutagenic Terrigen Mist gave them various powers, but also caused lasting genetic damage and deformities. This led to a long-term selective breeding program to try to mitigate the effects of these mutations.

Now when you look at this it sounds a little far-fetched for Marvel to be adding into their cinematic universe at this point- but they have recently given us a movie that contains an augmented raccoon and a living flora being so maybe this isn’t too far-fetched at all. Plus when you look at this a little more its highly possible, in Guardians of the Galaxy we were given our first glimpse of a Kree warrior in the form of Ronan the Accuser and it was even mentioned that he was a hero from the Kree and Skrull war. With this little bit of information already released by Marvel they have sewn the seeds for the background of the InHumans in one simple move, so that if this does come to fruition it isn’t like it came from nowhere.

Ronan isn’t the only Kree that Marvel have recently given us either- as in Agents of SHIELD itself we were treated to a visual of a big blue alien life form in a stasis chamber that provided the vital blood to bring Coulson back from the dead.

This would be the second example of a Kree soldier in recent months, we even got a glimpse of how SHIELD got this corpse in the season2 premiere. SHIELD acquired this body from one of the last of Hydra’s Nazi bases shortly after the demise of the Red Skull by Peggy Carter and her team which would suggest that the Kree warrior was original on Earth before being caught and killed by Hydra.

So what if Hydra have also discovered the secrets of the Kree bloodline and how to use this to augment human DNA to create InHumans? Well this would make a huge amount of sense given the post credit scene in Captain America2: The Winter Soldier which gives us our first glimpse at Quciksilver and Scarlet Witch. In the comics these are the twins of legendary mutant and terrorist Magneto- but with the rights to mutants being all tied up by Fox, Marvels best bet at getting any mutants into the cinematic universe is for them to be introduced as InHumans. And with Hydra having deep routes within SHIELD its highly likely that one of the scientists who helped bring Coulson back from the dead was a Hydra sleeper agent and now has everything they needed to create a race of InHumans- beginning with Pietro and Wanda.

This could simply be the beginning of a much larger InHuman civilisation to be created by Hydra within the Cinematic universe- or maybe the Kree had visited earth and left hundreds of humans with dormant DNA that just needs to be jump started with a tiny augmentation that Hydra have now discovered- but either way its clear that the changes to both Skye and Coulson are only beginning of what is to come. When you add to this the weird Grey Matter that also contains the odd writing, its highly likely that this could simply be the key to activating the dormant genes within these agents, the biggest clue to this was when Reina touched it this week and was spared but stated that she couldn’t wait to see ‘What they become’ when they are given the opportunity to touch the 084. This could simply be the Cinematic universes version of Terrigen Mists- as this would make a huge amount of sense.

Either way this mystery is looking like its guaranteed to produce a whole host of new and exciting opportunities for the Marvel cinematic universe and im onboard with it all the way- but secretly im hoping for InHumans.